Selected Papers from the 5^th International Conference on Polygeneration (ICP 2019)

"Selected Papers from the 5th International Conference on Polygeneration (ICP 2019)." Heat Transfer Engineering, 42(13-14), pp. 1067–1068

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Hiroaki Watanabe

Hiroaki Watanabe obtained his B. Eng. and M. Eng. degrees from Waseda University in 1996 and 1998, respectively. He received his Ph.D. in 2008 from Kyoto University. He joined Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry in 1998 and moved to Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kyushu University in 2014. Since October 2018, he has been working as a principal investigator at the International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research (WPI-I²CNER) in the Division of Thermal Science and Engineering. His research interests include mathematical modeling and simulation of turbulent multiphase combustion and solid material conversion. He has published more than 170 articles in peer-reviewed journals and international conference proceedings. He serves as the editorial board member of Advanced Powder Technology and Vibration Testing and Systems Dynamics.

Sivasankaran Harish

Sivasankaran Harish is presently working as a Principal Researcher at The University of Tokyo, Japan. He worked at Kyushu University as an Assistant Professor before moving to Tokyo. He obtained his Doctorate of Engineering degree from The University of Tokyo, Japan in 2013. He worked as a JSPS post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Kyushu University, Fukuoka. He obtained his Master of Science degree in 2010 from Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands and Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University in 2007. He was a visiting lecturer at The University of Edinburgh in 2017, visiting research fellow at Stanford University, USA in 2011 and worked as a research intern at CERN Particle Physics Laboratory, Geneva in Electronics Cooling Division in 2009. He was a recipient of ASML-Henk Bodt Fellowship, Royal-Dutch Shell Personal Development Award, Monbukogakusho Fellowship from Japan Ministry of Science and Education and Post-Doctoral Fellowship from Japan Society of Promotion of Science. His current research interests include waste heat harvesting using nanostructured thermoelectrics, phase change heat transport, nanocomposites for electronics cooling and thermal energy storage applications.